Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor

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Brand: APC

Solution: Data Center

Whitepaper Description:
This paper goes into detail to explain the terms power factor, crest factor and surge factor. It explains how these terms are unrelated and completely different and why it is so important to understand them as they are part of specifications in some cases.

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